{"id":22348,"date":"2016-02-19T11:47:50","date_gmt":"2016-02-19T19:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/researchers-demonstrate-quantum-surrealism"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:10:18","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:10:18","slug":"researchers-demonstrate-quantum-surrealism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/researchers-demonstrate-quantum-surrealism","title":{"rendered":"Researchers demonstrate \u2018quantum surrealism\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-demonstrate-quantum-surrealism.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Proving Quantum<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>New research demonstrates that particles at the quantum level can in fact be seen as behaving something like billiard balls rolling along a table, and not merely as the probabilistic smears that the standard interpretation of quantum mechanics suggests. But there\u2019s a catch \u2014 the tracks the particles follow do not always behave as one would expect from \u201crealistic\u201d trajectories, but often in a fashion that has been termed \u201csurrealistic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a new version of an old experiment, CIFAR Senior Fellow Aephraim Steinberg (University of Toronto) and colleagues tracked the <a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/trajectories\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">trajectories<\/a> of photons as the particles traced a path through one of two slits and onto a screen. But the researchers went further, and observed the \u201cnonlocal\u201d influence of another photon that the first photon had been entangled with.<\/p>\n<p>The results counter a long-standing criticism of an interpretation of quantum mechanics called the De Broglie-Bohm theory. Detractors of this interpretation had faulted it for failing to explain the behaviour of <a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/entangled+photons\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">entangled photons<\/a> realistically. For Steinberg, the results are important because they give us a way of visualizing quantum mechanics that\u2019s just as valid as the standard interpretation, and perhaps more intuitive.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2016-02-quantum-surrealism.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proving Quantum New research demonstrates that particles at the quantum level can in fact be seen as behaving something like billiard balls rolling along a table, and not merely as the probabilistic smears that the standard interpretation of quantum mechanics suggests. But there\u2019s a catch \u2014 the tracks the particles follow do not always behave [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22348"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68370,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22348\/revisions\/68370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}